Carey Lovelace has had over fifty productions of her works including at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, the Samuel French One-Act Festival (2006 finalist), and the BMI Music Theatre Workshop. Her 13-scene play Couples Counseling will be presented this fall by the Manhattan Rep Theatre; it received its world premiere at the REDCAT Theatre in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. She has been a finalist, semi-finalist, and won honorable mentions in numerous competitions, including winning the Maxim Mazundar One-Act Play Competition. She is a member of the Librettists Workshop at BMI and has just joined the prestigious Music Theatre Workshop. She has been a member of the Actors Studio P/D Workshop and of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Citylab. She is also an art journalist, was co-president of the International Association of Art Critics. She has written about the art world for over a decade and a half, one of her areas of focus is performance art.
PLAYS (Selected Performances)
Couples Counseling (full length) |
Manhattan Rep Fall Theatre Festival (2008); World Premiere: REDCAT Theatre, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA (2004); Staged Reading: Looking Glass Theatre (NYC, 2001); Selections from: Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000) ; O’Connor Theatre Project (Oxford, Miss., 2001) |
First StageLA, honorable mention (2008); Samuel French Festival, finalist (2006) |
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Words Said Backwards |
Monologues and Madness (2008) |
Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor, NY) (2007) |
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Staged readings: New Playwrights Series (NJ) (2005); Ensemble Studio Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company (2005); Early drafts, Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004); (2002) |
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Step |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004) |
Strawberry One-Act Festival (finalist, 2003); StageWorks (Kinderhook NY, 2002); Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001) |
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Co-op Murder Mystery (full length) |
Last Frontier (Edward Albee) Theatre Conference (2003) |
Listen to Me |
THAW 24/7 (2003) |
Samuel French Festival (2003) |
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Movie Mad |
SwampKing (2002) |
Samuel French One-Act Festival (2001); Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000); Pulse Ensemble Theatre (2001); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001) |
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September 11, 8:48 a.m. |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001) |
What Are You Working on Now? |
O’Connor Theatre Project (2001) |
Tending to Dolly |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001) |
When Mom Joined an Ashram |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001) |
Naked Ambitions |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001) |
Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, 1999); Atlantic Theatre Lab (NYC, 2001) |
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Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000) |
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Leaping Into Marvelous |
Producer’s Club (NYC, 2000) |
Pop! |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000) |
Tell Me Again You Love Me (***) |
Pulse Ensemble Theatre (NYC, 1999); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001) |
** Winner, Maxim Mazundar One-Act Play Competition
*** Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest Award
IN PROCESS
| Confidence: An Art World Musical (Libretto and Lyrics) | Developed through the BMI Music Theatre Workshop |
Welcome to Paradise! (Libretto) |
Developed through the BMI Music Theatre Workshop |
Lift Off |
Multi-media solo work |
TRAINING
Actor’s Studio, New School University (MFA) Playwrighting
Playwrighting studies with Curt Dempster, Laura-Maria Censabella, Stuart Spencer, Shirley Lauro, Neal Bell, John Augustine, Romulus Linney, Bruce Whitacre
New York University (MA) Journalism
California Institute of the Arts (BFA) Musical composition
AFFILIATIONS
Lyricist, BMI Lehman-Engel Music Theatre Workshop (auditor)
BMI Librettists Workshop
Dramatists Guild
PREVIOUS:
CityLab, led by the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Curt Dempster (1999-2005)Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Workshop